Hundreds of thousands of people in China have been given Covid-19 vaccines outside of clinical trials—now including students going abroad. Experts say releasing unproven shots could endanger public health.
China is expanding distribution of its coronavirus vaccines outside of clinical trials, with a state-owned company offering them to students going abroad amid a campaign by officials to boost public confidence in homegrown inoculations.
China National Biotec Group Co., a division of state-owned Sinopharm that is developing two Covid-19 vaccines, was giving them free to Chinese students planning to study abroad, according to a company website and students who applied for it.
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